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IHeart app, John Cobalt Show on demand, the podcast version. So this is a special day.

This is the first day of my life that O.J. Simpson does not exist.

And that's, it gives me a warm feeling throughout my soul.

I was, we were just talking with Gary and Shannon a few minutes ago and about it.

And it really is. This is the story that affected me the most personally and emotionally. And I really couldn't talk about it. And it really is. This is the story that affected me the most personally and

emotionally. And I really couldn't talk about it for the last 30 years. I really could never

watch a TV production about the OJ trial. I couldn't watch a movie, not any of the series,

nothing. Because if I looked at it for three minutes, I'd get out of my mind angry all over again.

It was just, it was so overwhelming.

I used to feel such sadness for the Goldman family and the Brown family.

And for the life of me, I could not ever understand why those psycho jurors could let

OJ off. And I understand all the explanations. I understand all the racial animosity in Los Angeles

at the time and whatever, whatever everybody's been debating all these years. But there was just,

I guess, I don't know if I was naive or childlike,

but, you know, I never identified with a group in my life as a kid. I was an outsider as a kid

in elementary school. And I never felt like I was not in a house where my parents defined themselves

as a Republican or a Democrat. I didn't define myself based on my skin color. I, you know,

we were Polish since my dad was a was an immigrant from there, but it, that didn't really

dominate our life. It was life. I just looked at things

clearly for what it was, what I saw off my own eyes. And I didn't, it ever colored it with that

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